The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.

It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.